Since its establishment in 1977, International Museum Day (IMD) has been held every 18 May to celebrate museums as supremely valuable cultural and educational institutions. The objective of the day is to raise awareness that museums are not only (...)
As the domestic situation grows bleaker for him and his ruling party, Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan is struggling to turn the Turkish public's attention away from home.
In his desperation, Erdogan is laying bare his designs to cement the (...)
One of the most commonly encountered terms in the coronavirus literature these days is “the new normal”. It refers to the norms that societies will adopt as they gradually resume “normal” life. The concept draws on the notion that societies like to (...)
Syria's oil and mineral resources ministry announced Saturday a reduction in automobile fuel subsidies, the latest government measure to tackle a deepening economic crisis.
The ministry said it was revising down its fuel subsidies, excluding from (...)
Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria killed 14 Iranian and Iraqi fighters and wounded others, some seriously, an opposition war monitoring group said Tuesday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the late Monday strikes in (...)
Imprisoned members of the Islamic State group rioted and took control of a prison in northeast Syria for several hours, until Kurdish-led authorities negotiated an end to the unrest Sunday.
The riot began Saturday at a prison in the city of (...)
Israeli helicopters fired several rockets from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on targets inside southern Syria, Syrian state media reported on Friday, the latest in what intelligence sources say is an increase of strikes against Iranian-backed (...)
In defiance of UN appeals for a freeze on armed conflicts in the Middle East while the world fights the Covid-19 pandemic, Israel staged a pre-dawn attack on a suburb of Damascus on Monday. It did not comment on the strikes, which caused several (...)
Israeli launched air strikes near the Syrian capital killing three civilians, the Syrian air defences had downed “most” of the Israeli missiles launched from Lebanese air space shortly before dawn, the official SANA news agency said.
“Three (...)
Two former members of Syria's secret police go on trial Thursday in Germany accused of crimes against humanity for their role in a government-run detention center where large numbers of opposition protesters were tortured.
The trial of Anwar R. and (...)
Coronavirus outbreaks across the Middle East threaten to shatter the lives of millions of already destitute people in conflict zones, and could fuel socio-economic upheaval, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on (...)
Unknown gunmen fatally shot and stabbed a member of the militant Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon and an investigation was launched, Lebanese security officials said Sunday.
The body of Ali Mohammed Younes was found next to his car Saturday (...)
Though Abu Dhabi Crown-Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed has been talking over the phone to many world leaders in the last few days, his conversation with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad on Friday was a focus of particular attention.
It was the first (...)
Syria's health ministry said on Sunday that a woman who died after being rushed to hospital for emergency treatment was found to have been infected by coronavirus in the first officially reported death from the disease.
Syria also said its confirmed (...)
The new coronavirus continued its spread across some of the most-vulnerable nations of the Mideast on Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund warned that a lack of medical supplies in Iraq, Sudan and Yemen could lead to a surge in prices.
There (...)
A decade ago, in the midst of unprecedented tumultuous uprisings across the Arab world, some Syrian political forces, mainly the Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood of Syria, rose against the rule of President Bashar Al-Assad. What has become known (...)
شاركت الفنانة الفلسطينية شكران مرتجى جمهورها صورة جديدة لها من خلال حسابها الخاص على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي و تبادل الصور والفيديوهات انستجرام.
ووجهت شكران رسالة الى جمهورها من خلال تعليقها على الصورة قائلة :" "لا تُهدر وقتَكَ في الشرح والإيضاح ؛ (...)
One never ceases to be amazed at the pro-government media in Turkey. One minute they're cursing the Kremlin and calling Vladimir Putin a killer. The next minute the Russian bear is the cat's meow. But then they are only keeping in lockstep with a (...)
A senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was "martyred" in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, withot giving details of how he died.
The agency, which is close to the Revolutionary Guards, described Dabirian as a (...)
The presidents of Russia and Turkey said they reached agreements on a cease-fire to take effect at midnight Thursday in northwestern Syria, where escalating fighting had threatened to put forces from the two countries into a direct military (...)
The Turkish and Russian presidents on Thursday sat down for talks in Moscow aimed at ending hostilities in northwestern Syria involving their forces and proxies that threaten to pit the two countries against each other in a direct military (...)
Syria's Kurds have developed a strong influence in the country in recent years, having courageously participated in the battle against the Islamic State (IS) group and being able to assert their military presence through the Syrian Democratic Forces (...)
Syrian government forces and their allies retook early Monday a key northwestern town days after losing it to rebel forces, pro-government media and an opposition war monitor said.
The town's recapture comes escalating and direct clashes between (...)
The Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) announced last Thursday the film programme for its 9th edition which will be held on 6-12 March.
This edition is dubbed "Farid Shawky" after the late popular Egyptian actor and producer, whose filmography (...)
Syria's official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces.
SANA says the jets were targeted (...)
